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Software Supplier Uses Mirapoint's Message Server and Junk Mail Manager for Strong Enterprise Messaging at a Low Total Cost of Ownership Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that Synplicity, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP), a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, has selected Mirapoint's Message Server and Junk Mail Manager to meet their growing corporate messaging needs. When looking to upgrade their previous email system, Synplicity sought a messaging solution that offered greater reliability at a lower TCO than other options while providing the same rich functionality. Moreover, knowing that corporate messaging presently encompasses numerous fields including security, policy management, archiving, storage, serving and routing -- Synplicity wanted one vendor with the end-to-end messaging solutions and expertise to assist in all of these areas. After evaluating different vendors and solutions, Synplicity chose Mirapoint's purpose-built Message Server appliance for its low TCO and its "five-nines" reliability. Once Synplicity implemented Mirapoint, the company noticed the overall messaging improvements from the new email appliance both in their Sunnyvale offices and remotely. IT staff noticed Mirapoint's industry-leading reliability while Synplicity employees were immediately up and running on Mirapoint's Corporate Edition WebMail without any user training due to its familiar corporate look and feel. Mirapoint even personalized the WebMail interface to reflect Synplicity's brand. To further combat spam, Synplicity has also implemented Mirapoint's Junk Mail Manager to provide a second layer of anti-virus, and give end users greater personal spam controls for protection of their core messages. They have also recently begun deploying Mirapoint email security solutions to further secure their messaging infrastructure. Synplicity is also relying on Mirapoint's industry-leading reliabilty to bolster its disaster recovery strategy by deploying two message servers at distributed company locations. This will ensure that Synplicity's messaging infrastructure is always available should one server be rendered inoperable due to an unforeseen disaster. "We needed a messaging solution that offered an alternative to expensive messaging applications and found it with Mirapoint's appliances," said Lam Hoang, director of information services at Synplicity. "The IT staff is pleased with the switch to Mirapoint. We've spent significantly less time managing and worrying about the messaging infrastructure and the only thing our employees have noticed is more reliable email and a slick webmail client -- the transition was seamless. We are looking forward to working with Mirapoint more closely for our email security needs moving forward." Synplicity's assessment of Mirapoint was recently echoed by a leading industry analyst. In the February 2006 MarketScope for Email Systems, Gartner research vice president, Matt Cain states, "Mirapoint's strengths are its high stability and low TCO via an integrated operating system, database, file system and access interfaces." Mirapoint's Message Server is the industry's only dedicated email appliance that integrates routing, storage, access and management with comprehensive, multi-layered email security to block hackers, spam, and virus threats. Mirapoint's RazorGate email security appliance recently set a new industry benchmark for performance of more than 25 million messages of throughput per day. The RazorGate accomplishes this at roughly half the cost of competing products, further solidifying the RazorGate price-performance leadership. About Synplicity Synplicity(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNP) is a leading supplier of innovative software solutions that enable the rapid and effective design of Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs, PLDs and CPLDs) that serve a wide range of communications, military/aerospace, consumer, semiconductor, computer, and other electronic systems markets. Synplicity's tools provide outstanding performance, cost and time-to-market benefits by simplifying, improving and automating key design planning, logic synthesis, physical synthesis and verification functions for FPGA, FPGA-based ASIC verification, and DSP designers. Synplicity is the number one supplier of FPGA synthesis solutions and has been rated #1 in customer satisfaction in 2004 and 2005 in EE Times' Annual FPGA Customer Survey. Synplicity products support industry-standard design languages (VHDL and Verilog) and run on popular platforms. The company operates in over 20 facilities worldwide and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information visit http://www.synplicity.com. About Mirapoint Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. (C) 2005 Mirapoint, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.